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...impressively enough, Fidèle de Port-Manech). Walter P. Chrysler Jr. got a "rejection slip" signed by a fictitious secretary named Kelly. Though the young James Johnson Sweeney managed to make the grade, the Modern Museum's Alfred Barr Jr. was rudely rebuffed by Barnes, and Lloyd Goodrich of the Whitney Museum never got in at all. Members of the faculty of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts were banned as being "habitually in a state of profound alcoholic intoxication." A lady critic from Philadelphia was told that she would never understand art until...
Despite a lot of talk about disappointing second-quarter earnings, many investors seemed to buy and sell for other reasons. The stocks of Budd, Goodrich. Liggett & Myers and American Steel Foundries, for example, all rose despite lower earnings reports. A.M.F., Burroughs, Crown Zellerbach, General Foods and Gillette all fell despite the fact they had higher earnings...
...Impatient to grow, he would prowl around General Tire's departments, demand of executives: "Why the hell aren't you fellows making more money?" By merger and acquisition, he built General Tire into the rubber industry's fifth largest company (after Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber, and Goodrich). In 1944 he made his best deal, bought a half interest in the fledgling Aerojet Engineering Corp. for $75,000, bought another 34% chunk of the company when its sales zoomed. Last year Aerojet-General, under former Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, accounted for nearly half ($364 million...
...week by the George Batten Co. in 1928, just before its merger with Barton, Durstine & Osborn. His hard-slogging work habits and a slogan-making command of the language propelled him through BBDO's ranks as he worked on ad campaigns for Armstrong Cork, Servel, B. F. Goodrich and Cellophane. He became the agency's chief idea man in 1946, a member of the executive committee...
Died. Reuben Buck Robertson Jr., 51, husky, shirtsleeved president (since 1950) of the Champion Paper & Fibre Co. of Hamilton, Ohio (1959 sales: $169 million), director of B. F. Goodrich Co. and Procter & Gamble Co., onetime (during the Korean war) member of the Wage Stabilization Board and former (1955-57) first assistant to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; in a traffic accident; in Cincinnati...